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There was not even a reaction. On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On ...
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CHAPTER I. THE LOVE-LIGHT. Long ago, in the days when our caged blackbirds never saw a king's soldier without whistling impudently, "Come ower the water to Charlie," a minister of Thrums was to be mar ...
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"An Outcast of the Islands" is my second novel in the absolute sense of the word; second in conception, second in execution, second as it were in its essence. There was no hesitation, half-formed plan ...
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
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If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, "Why, of course, I did, child," and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say ...
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I. WHEN Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas Lapham for the "Solid Men of Boston" series, which he undertook to finish up in The Events, after he replaced their original projector on that newspape ...
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The company stood at attention, each man looking straight before him at the empty parade ground, where the cinder piles showed purple with evening. On the wind that smelt of barracks and disinfectant ...
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MORE than three years have elapsed since the occurrence of the events recorded in this volume. The interval, with the exception of the last few months, has been chiefly spent by the author tossing ab ...
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To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself ...
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A young woman struggles to maintain her innocence and virtue despite the pressures of a libertine rake and her restrictive family in Clarissa, Samuel Richardson’s epic eighteenth-century novel that ...
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Love, sexuality, and relationships between men and women are the day’s topics of discussion for passengers on a train in Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata. Little do they know that wi ...
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Book Sampler: Best of Brit Lit
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From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, Britain has produced a dazzling array of literary greats. The Best of the Brits Sampler gives you tastes of some of the most interesting, important, and beautiful writi ...
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A young woman struggles to maintain her innocence and virtue despite the pressures of a libertine rake and her restrictive family in Clarissa, Samuel Richardson’s epic eighteenth-century novel that ...
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